Anthony Trollope Quotes
It may almost be a question whether such wisdom as many of us have in our mature years has not come from the dying out of the power of temptation, rather than as the results of thought and resolution.
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That service is the noblest which is rendered for its own sake.
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You can learn from everyone, the president or the cleaner. You need teachers in life, but they're not always school teachers or professors. You learn from ordinary people. You learn from travel, from just walking down the street.
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Without philosophy, history is always for me dead and dumb.
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With 'Dance Moms' in L.A., we film on Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Saturday. When we film in Pittsburgh, we film the same days, but we still dance in our studio when we're not filming, so I'm dancing every day except Sunday.
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I think men, growing up, you have to go through some form of hardship. You've got to harden the metal.
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I think there are ways to get so caught up in your career and being so heavy and dramatic, and everyone wants to be a tortured genius.
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Take good care of our fragile planet.
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As it relates to society in general, I think we are inviting God's judgment on our nation when we shake our fist at him and say, 'We know better than you as to what constitutes a marriage.'
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People don't really want reality. They want theater, and that's different.
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I think actors have a choice of drawing attention to themselves or living on the outskirts.
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My mother's nickname for me is 'Positive Patrick.' I like to live up to that title.
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I am neither left wing nor right wing. I am middle-of-the-bird.
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American business at this point is really about developing an idea, making it profitable, selling it while it's profitable and then getting out or diversifying. It's just about sucking everything up.
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When a marriage culture fails, sexual desire no longer unites; instead it fragments.
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What makes loneliness an anguish is not that I have no one to share my burden, but this: I have only my own burden to bear.
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I feel Dress for Success is basically about empowering women who were in a disadvantaged situation. The act of wearing a suit when she's walking in the door, it's so powerful - it's about gaining control of their lives and situations.
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One of the reasons I love writing for middle graders, besides their voracious appetite for books, is their deep concern for fairness and morality.
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We remained in Texas leading a quiet home life until 1889.
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Just when you think you know something, it gets turned around and challenged in some way. But those changes are welcome because you end up learning more.
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If you are nice, and keep your promise, we will be in paradise.
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The last time I visited Qaddafi was in May of 2001, 15 years after Reagan attacked his rather modest residence where he took me to show me how it had been left.
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Do not fear. Look beyond what's dying to what's being born.
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Those who have the largest hearts have the soundest understandings; and they are the truest philosophers who can forget themselves.
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It may almost be a question whether such wisdom as many of us have in our mature years has not come from the dying out of the power of temptation, rather than as the results of thought and resolution.
